[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 19 (Monday, May 11, 1998)]
[Pages 818-819]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7093--Mother's Day, 1998

May 7, 1998

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    Mothers are the heart of our families and the soul of our society. 
They are the nurturers of life, our teachers, confidants, counselors, 
and lifelong friends. They believe in

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our dreams and help us to achieve them. They help us develop the values, 
self-esteem, strength of character, and generosity of spirit we need to 
embrace the wider world beyond the family. Above all, mothers provide us 
with the blessing of their love.
    While this special love between mother and child is unchanging, the 
challenges of motherhood are not. The role of women in our society has 
changed dramatically during the past century. Millions of American women 
today pursue full-time careers in addition to carrying out their duties 
as parents, balancing family, job, and community responsibilities. 
Whether they stay home with their children or become working mothers, 
mothers today care for their families and meet the new demands of our 
complex society with strength, courage, and quiet selflessness. On 
Mother's Day, let us honor all mothers--biological or adoptive, foster 
or stepmother--whose unconditional love has strengthened us and whose 
many gifts have graced our lives.
    The Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 
770), has designated the second Sunday in May each year as ``Mother's 
Day'' and requested the President to call for its appropriate 
observance.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, do hereby proclaim May 10, 1998, as Mother's Day. I 
urge all Americans to express their love, respect, and appreciation for 
the contributions mothers have made to all of us, and I call upon all 
citizens to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and 
activities.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of 
May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and of 
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
twenty-second.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., May 11, 1998]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on May 
12.